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Re: upstream upgrade and user's files



Chris Waters wrote:
> In the long run, I'd like to try to get this fixed upstream, with some
> sort of version numbering in the config files, but that doesn't help
> today.  Does anyone have any suggestions, or better yet, examples of
> other packages that have had this problem, and how it was solved?

ps used to have this problem... and it was solved by fixing the package.
I don't think there's any other way.  At the least, the program should
detect when a config file is an old version, and offer to delete it.

Richard Braakman


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